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As a member of the Compute Platform organization, you will collaborate with other teams - including Product, Infrastructure, Traffic, Cost & Capacity Engineering to:
Lead the vision – Define the technical direction, long-term technical roadmap, and strategic initiatives in Cards. Be a role model - Lead from the front as an example in using AI to build fast, take initiative, and revolutionize how we work.
Our partner is looking for a Staff Backend Engineer, Operations based in the United States. Join a forward-thinking engineering team developing advanced AI systems that transform how the insurance industry operates.
Work cross-functionally with product, data science, operations and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy to keep our platform safe.
Work cross-functionally with product, data science, operations and other engineering counterparts to execute on product and business strategy to keep our platform safe.
As a Principal Software Engineer on the Enterprise Platform team, you’ll set technical direction for foundational services that power NodeZero’s customer and partner experiences.
· You will own the architecture of Affirm’s telemetry pipeline, balancing reliability, query performance, and cost at 200+ TB/day. · You will design log sampling strategies that significantly reduce volume and cost without losing the signal engineers need during incidents.
You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
As a Staff Software Engineer on the Order Platform team, you'll shape the systems that power every Affirm purchase after checkout — orders, captures, refunds, and settlement — and drive the technical strategy that lets our merchants and consumers transact reliably at scale.
· You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
Architect, build, and operate high-scale distributed systems powering Docker Hub’s registry platform—spanning artifact storage, metadata services, indexing workflows, and performance-critical APIs.
Systems & Operations. Own the design, scalability, and reliability of build and pipelines across multiple services and platforms. Ensure fast, reliable feedback cycles for developers by optimizing build times, test coverage, and reporting.
You will be responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
As a Senior Software Engineer, your goal will be to ensure that our AI Agents are backed by the most reliable and scalable server solutions.
Shape the future of Reddit by adapting our platforms to an evolving privacy, security, and regulatory landscape. Partner with product, design, and engineering teams across the company to build trusted, compliant experiences for millions of users.
It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about.
You'll partner closely with Marketing, Product, and Design, work alongside Airbnb's ML/AI and data platform teams, and integrate deeply with the core product to turn a rich understanding of the customer journey into differentiated, high-performing paid experiences.
As Vanta expands its agentic capabilities across surfaces like MCP, CLI, and the Vanta Agent, the Identity team is at the center of a new set of problems: defining what it means for an agent to act as a user's proxy, enforcing consistent permission checks across every…
Own backend services powering Coinbase Advisor and Strategies, from technical design through launch and ongoing operation. Build integrations with Coinbase's trading APIs so agent recommendations and user-configured strategies translate into correct, auditable execution.
Own the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for the Payments platform, defining the roadmap for scaling integrations, routing, and funds-flow systems across global markets.
143 of the 326 Backend Engineer jobs on Six Figure Jobs (44%) can be done remotely, and every one publishes a salary of $100k+ or the local equivalent. Most of the remote openings are with employers based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom; some ask you to live in a given country or time zone, so check each listing.
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